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Information about February 19


February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are


315 days remaining, 316 in leap years.


Events


   * 607 - Boniface III becomes Pope


   * 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster. A


     provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam


     to England, which renamed it New York


   * 1807 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron


     Burr is arrested for treason.


   * 1846 - In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is


     officially installed.


   * 1847 - The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the


     survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal.


   * 1861 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia.


   * 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison


   * 1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic


     beverages.


   * 1913 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first


     time


   * 1942 - World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin,


     Australia


   * 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive


     order allowing the United States military to relocate


     Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.


   * 1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States


     Marines landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle.


   * 1949 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the


     Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.


   * 1953 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship


     board in the United States.


   * 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.


   * 1985 - Artificial-heart patient William Schroeder becomes the first


     such patient to leave hospital.


   * 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station


   * 1986 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a


     treaty outlawing genocide.


   * 1997 - The last of the Republic of China's major revolutionaries, Deng


     Xiaoping dies at 92.


   * 1999 - Dennis Franz receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


   * 2001 - A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City


     National Memorial Center.


   * 2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of


     using its thermal emission imaging system.


Births


   * 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer (+ 1543)


   * 1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann, physician and chemist (+ 1742)


   * 1717 - David Garrick, actor (+ 1779)


   * 1743 - Luigi Boccherini, italian classical music preformer


   * 1804 - David Wark, Canadian politician and Senator (+ 1905)


   * 1865 - Sven Hedin, scientist (+ 1952)


   * 1876 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor (+ 1957)


   * 1877 - Gabriele MŸnter, painter, member of Blaue Reiter (+ 1962)


   * 1911 - Merle Oberon, actress (+ 1979)


   * 1912 - Stan Kenton, musician (+ 1979)


   * 1917 - Carson McCullers, author (+ 1967)


   * 1924 - Lee Marvin, actor (+ 1987)


   * 1940 - Smokey Robinson, musician


   * 1943 - Mama Cass Elliot, singer


   * 1949 - Dan Bunten, software developer (+ 1998)


   * 1952 - Amy Tan, novelist


   * 1954 - Socrates, football player


   * 1955 - Jeff Daniels, actor


   * 1957 - Falco, singer (+ 1998)


   * 1960 - Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II


   * 1963 - Seal, singer


   * 1967 - Benicio Del Toro, actor


Deaths


   * 1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark


   * 1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist,


     political scientist, and sailor


   * 1936 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer


   * 1942 - Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman, executed


   * 1951 - AndrŽ Gide, author


   * 1952 - Knut Hamsun, author


   * 1980 - Bon Scott, musician ("AC/DC")


   * 1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese political leader


   * 2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist


   * 2001 - Stanley Kramer, director


   * 2003 - Johnny Paycheck, 64 yrs., country music singer

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